{"id":251482,"date":"2022-03-28T07:08:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T07:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251482"},"modified":"2022-03-30T07:43:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T07:43:32","slug":"president-biden-warns-that-food-shortages-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251482","title":{"rendered":"President Biden Warns That \u201cFood Shortages\u201d Are Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Biden warns food shortages are &#8216;going to be real&#8217; across the globe because of Putin invading the world&#8217;s &#8216;breadbasket&#8217; Ukraine<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>President Joe Biden\u00a0 said there will be food shortages around the globe because of Vladimir Putin&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8216;It&#8217;s going to be real,&#8217; he said. &#8216;Because both Russia and Ukraine have been the breadbasket of Europe in terms of wheat, for example&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The United States, through the Feed the Future initiative, will provide over $11 billion over the next five years to address food security threat\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Russia and Ukraine\u00a0jointly account for around 25% of world wheat exports and 16% of world corn exports, leading to surging prices for the grains\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Emily Goodin \u2013 Daily Mail March 24. 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_201896\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/Russian-agricultural-sector-has-flourished-amid-sanctions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201896\" class=\"wp-image-201896\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/Russian-agricultural-sector-has-flourished-amid-sanctions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/Russian-agricultural-sector-has-flourished-amid-sanctions.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/Russian-agricultural-sector-has-flourished-amid-sanctions-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/Russian-agricultural-sector-has-flourished-amid-sanctions-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-201896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian agricultural sector has flourished amid sanctions. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/joe-biden\/index.html\"><strong>Joe Biden<\/strong><\/a> on Thursday said there will be food shortages around the globe because of Vladimir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/vladimir_putin\/index.html\"><strong>Putin<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s going to be real,&#8217; he said. &#8216;Because both Russia and Ukraine have been the breadbasket of Europe in terms of wheat, for example.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Food security, along with general humanitarian assistance, was one of the main topics of conversation in Biden&#8217;s trifecta of emergency meetings with NATO leaders, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/european-union\/index.html\"><strong>European Union<\/strong><\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/g7\/index.html\"><strong>G7<\/strong><\/a>. The summits were called to deal with the invasion of the Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We are in the process of working out with our European friends, what it would be what it would take to help alleviate the concerns relative to food shortages. We also talked about a significant major US investment among others in terms of providing for the need for humanitarian assistance, including food as we move forward,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine is a heavily agricultural country with winter wheat, spring barley, and corn as some of its main crops.<\/p>\n<p>The United States, through the Feed the Future initiative, will provide over $11 billion over the next five years to address food security threats and malnutrition across the globe &#8211; with programming in many of the countries vulnerable to increases in food and fertilizer prices.<\/p>\n<p>A senior administration told reporters in a briefing on Thursday that Russia&#8217;s invasion &#8216;jeopardizes global food security, particularly for vulnerable populations in the Middle East and Africa&#8217; as farms are being destroyed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10649439\/Biden-warns-food-shortages-going-real-Ukraine-invasion.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Commentary \u2013 March 27, 2022<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Food shortages may soon be a reality. We are under no illusions about that but their possible imminence puts Bill Gates purchase of vast tracts of U.S. farmland in an entirely new perspective. Because in case you did not know, Bill Gates is now the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=225416\">single biggest owner of U.S. farmland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Did he know recent global political developments would give him even more power? Is that why he made the purchase?<\/p>\n<p>After all the former CEO of Microsoft only recently commandeered the world\u2019s response to the Covid &#8220;pandemic&#8221;. In doing so he was able to override many national leaders. Now he\u2019s in control of a critical sector of the economy that is about to become even more important.<\/p>\n<p>We are talking about a man who probably wields more power now than many heads of state.<\/p>\n<p>The lives of billions could soon depend on how Gates&#8217; most recent investment is managed. For example, will he devote the lands he has purchased to food production, or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jenniferhicks\/2016\/10\/24\/total-and-bill-gates-invest-14-million-in-biomass-conversion-technology-for-biofuels\/?sh=6d108ee46b15\">growth of bio-fuels<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Either way, recent developments on the international political front have given Bill Gates unprecedented power, which only strengthens our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=248102\">suspicions about him<\/a>. Ed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although President Biden blames Putin, he omits to say that the shortages will come because of Russia&#8217;s response to western sanctions <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251482"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251512,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251482\/revisions\/251512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}